Evaluation Question 1

1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My media product is a 2 minute opening and in most of the extract it hits the typical codes, conventions and forms but challenges them with the characterisation.

The genre i chose was thriller/horror as there typical conventions are to have a victim normally a women, a killer normally a man and a witness. The whole film is dark and gives a gloomy effects, the music would be fast paced as there would be a chase involved. 

The idea between my idea for the conventions is to have this very dark light and this light behind them connotes the warning of danger as you can see a dark figure in the background you can clearly see that it is building tension the music with this is from the movie 'silence' which Me and Sarah thought would suit perfectly with the pace that we have set this peace.    I looked at the REC this movie inspired me as

a 'horror' genre to use the light in a effective way and where to place it to create this tension and excitement for the audience.






I used this lighting once again as the head lights drove past it gave the effect that there is danger around and connoting that they are connected to something horrific. This are all conventions of horror/ thriller but there is a challenge of  this conventions as the killer is in fact a women she is the best

friends  mate who is on drugs and murders one of the girls. only showing certain parts of the girl helps us to convey the character as being very mysterious and you only see her face at the very end which is a shock that it is a girl and is there best friend. Making this ideology helps to show the audience that the typical conventions has been broken and the the reason i have portrayed her at the start as a man it gives this character her counter type status.

By using this genre i feel that i have used the conventions to the best of

my advantages the light i think works really well i have used a black hoodie for the killer as she is portraying a very evil character and showing the male gender that people see to be more threatening and considering it is a girl killing a girl it needs to be shown to the audience how much people think that the killer is a dangerous male.